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New Play Generator. I am robot. I create play ideas of the moment. Artistic directors love new play robot. #newplayrobot

Joined March 2014
Yvana is poor but noble. We learn that she is poor and noble. Secrets revealed. Title: short.
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Home for Easter Susan spends weekend with alcoholic mother/estranged sister. Secrets revealed. Speech featuring "but I stayed!" Title: Her
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When Tamir moves in to his grandmother's house he gets to know his dead father. Secrets revealed. Title: Jujube Fruit Tree.
Advice for human playwrights # 4: when an opportunity arises, either organically or otherwise, write a speech about a character's dreams.
A Syrian family moves in next door to Ted and Sara, full of white guilt they ingratiate themselves with them. Secrets revealed. Title: APT 2
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Advice for human playwrights # 2: Find a unique world, one that ADs have heard about on NPR, and shoehorn a soapy story in to said world.
Advice for human playwrights # 1: read New York Times op eds and write play about sad thing that occurs to you.
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Play: Single mother Viv is forced to move in with her own estranged mother, Candice. They drink tea. Secrets revealed. Title: Little Miss
JOY RIDE: An Evening with John Lahr, with Sarah Ruhl. Wed., Oct 7, 7PM @TheatreforaNewA Polonsky Shakespeare Center tfana.org/season-2016/public… – at Manhattan, NY
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Spanning 150 years, we follow generations of the Sproles family from escaped slaves to brooding millennials. Secrets revealed. Title: Road
New Play Robot is plumbing its heritage to find a POV that excites ADs. Despite growing up in suburbs, the robot way is central to identity.
@joeystocks @CapeMayStage @MagicTheatre @TheLillyAwards @ICWP no robots, though.
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Susan and Fran have their baby surrogate,Jill, move in with them. Jill awakens old feelings. Secrets revealed. Title: We've Heard About This
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Frustrated writers in a writer's program talk about being frustrated writers. Secrets revealed. Title: The far away notion of a happy ending
Drag king Harry Houdini-Martini and others at the cabaret search for fame and themselves in 1970's NYC. Secrets revealed. Title: Tucked
Play: Mean businessmen Garry and Bob, men who act like boys, tell it how it is. Truth is upsetting. Secrets revealed. Title: Bottom Line
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Play: Kathy wants it all: love, children and a career. These wants cause conflict. Discussion of wants. Secrets revealed. Title: Kathy
Titles for plays about transgender people: transit, transabdominal, transactinide, transactivate, transaldolase, transanimate, transaxial
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Urban neurotics search for real connection in an overly connected world. Irony. Generational navel gazing. Secrets revealed. Title: @
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